James 4:17 “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”
As Christians we are the children of God, we are no
longer the property of any other because we were bought by the blood of Jesus,
God’s own Son. We are to live, move, and have our being by the rule, authority,
and laws of God, because He is our Father. God hates sin, there is not one sin
that our Heavenly Father is pleased with, not one. So, what is a sin against
God, it is any action, word, desire, purpose, or omission contrary to the law,
which is contrary to the word of God. Jesus, God’s own Son said, “I can of
mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because
I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.” John
5:30 If every believer had this thought in their heart, and worked to
accomplish this, we would be so obedient to our Father and our crowns and
rewards would be also great in heaven. While we all sin because of our old
nature, our new nature should correct our old nature, and we would sin so much
less. When our sin is a voluntary violation of, or failure to comply with the
word of God then we are in greater violation of God’s law. God said, “Therefore
to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.” The
Believers who walk the closest with God in His word are always the happiest
because we are walking in fellowship with God. Jesus said, “Verily, verily,
I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is
sent greater than he that sent him. (17) If ye know these things, happy are ye
if ye do them.” John 13:16 - 17 And He should know because He walked 100%
with God and in God’s will. We must remember that every transgression is
represented in the Bible as an act of rebellion against God, who is all Holy
and is a hater of all sin. For us as His children to act independently of him,
to set up the will of His child against the will of their Father in Heaven, and
to put self in the place of God, and thus to dishonor His Holy name. We must
also understand that it is wrong to twist our thinking and to blame our natural
flesh for our sin. We must accept responsibility to God and work every second
of everyday to please our Father. Sin should be our unrest in life, like a tossing
of the waves of the sea; a constant disturbance, the flesh against the spirit,
us against Satan. The Apostle Paul wrote about “departing from the faith” it
was like “…having their conscience seared with a hot iron;” 1 Timothy
4:2b That is “to render
unsensitive” to the will of God for us to walk upright. Paul wrote about
our new born again life, “This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord,
that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their
mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God
through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work
all uncleanness with greediness.” Ephesians 4:17 – 19 And do not forget,
when Paul speaks of the word “Gentiles” his reference is to lost people of the
world.
